When I travel I am always adventurous with my food. Not for me the glitzy restaurants (although I will be featuring some restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City soon) but I also enjoy eating the local street food. Since I am in a country where I don’t understand the language, it can get hard to communicate and sometimes, I do feel a little like I might have been overcharged. Still, in a country like Vietnam I could bear paying a little more as a tourist.
This was a bowl of pho bo (vietnamese beef noodles) I ordered off a stall on the street in Ho Chi Minh City. It was quite a substantial amount of flat rice noodles in a bowl of soup with beef balls and slices of beef that was cooked just right. I don’t know how the Vietnamese do it, but they always manage to get the beef just so.
It came with the uniquitous raw vegetables, lime and mint and sliced chilli. Be careful with Vietnamese chilli – its very spicy!
This bowl cost me VND15,000 (RM4). The first time I was in Vietnam 10 years ago, a bowl cost me VND5,000. Inflation rates are horrendous there! Still, it was delicious. Way better than Pho 24 – the restaurant chain of pho noodles, a review of which is coming up soon.
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Wow .. look at the basil. I just love the smell of it. So they put beef balls in the pho? I thought that’s what people do in the not-so-authentic Vietnamese noodle house.
You are so lucky to get to travel so much!
Droooolllllllll…..